Direct Democracy

EU dabbles in direct democracy

23 May 2012

Housing for cows and the other issues pushed by citizens

Contempt for our democracy: Overruling our Parliament, unelected European judges insist prisoners MUST get the vote

22 May 2012

In a judgment which will provoke fury in Parliament, the Strasbourg court said that the current ban on inmates voting in England and Wales breached human rights laws.

Wake up and start co-creating - Birgitta Jónsdóttir at FutureEverything

18 May 2012

Birgitta Jónsdóttir praised co-operatives in a speech about direct democracy at the FutureEverything conference today. The Iceland MP , WikiLeaks activist, and self described cyber terrorist, who successfully sued the US Government this week over the National Defense Authorization Act, talked about the need for people to co-create their own democracy and change the system which already exists.